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Help - spin count exceeded issues...

Hi all, I'm starting to have more frequent problems with this and I'm hoping someone can help. The first time I saw this type of error was about a month or so ago.  Then on Saturday the server locked...

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created 4 Windows 7 Enterprise 64 Bit Images and deploy P2V and as soon we...

created 4 Windows 7 Enterprise 64 Bit Images and deploy P2V and as soon we turn the VM on it is eating up the Memory and Balloon Memory

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Can I pause some where at Kickstart script when performing PXE installation?

I have successfully setup PXE installation for VMware vSphere Hypervisor. The pxelinux config file has something like this:label VMware vSphere Hypervisor        menu label VMware vSphere Hypervisor...

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The installation of ESXi 4 freezes in the "Initializing scheduler" stage

Tried to install ESXi 4.1 on IBM x3550 M3. The installation process hangs in the "Initializing scheduler" stage.Also tried ESXi 4.0 U1 and ESXi 4.0 U1 with IBM customization - the same result.Note,...

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Host not seeing additional nic cards

I have an esxi host 4.1 running on an IBM 3650m3 with three pci slot 4 port nic cards.  In  the configuration and networking option I am not seeing these additional nic cards I am only seeing the...

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ESXi 4.1 Update 3 panics CentOS 6 guests

I'm running VMware vSphere 4 Essentials on three almost identically configured hosts with a mix of guests including Windows 2003 and 2008 as well as CentOS 5 and 6. Recently I installed Update 3 on one...

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Free backup solutions for VMware ESXi?

I would like to back up the VM images from one datastore to another with the aim that I can just start it up in VSphere if the primary one falls over.  The backup process needs to take place once a day...

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Really bad disk performance

Hi everyone. I'm new to VMWare, I'm having a really serious case of very poor disk performance and It's getting hard to me to troubleshoot it.First of all I would like to post some information that may...

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Snapshot consolidation with VMware Converter

Dear all, ESXi 4.1.0VMware Converter Stand aloneProductive system with typical "Too much snapshots to get it consolidated on the datastore"-problem. Already found several threads and hints, that using...

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ESXi - Acronis vmProtect 7 - Fails

Hello,  I've got a machine running ESXi 4 with 5 VM's + 1 AcronisAppliance with vmProtect 7. Untill last week, everything worked fine. There was not a single problem with the backups. I Did some...

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cannot create quiesced snapshot after extending c: drive

Hey everyone, ran into this issue recently, so far haven't resolved it... This is running on esxi 4.1 U2 host. The vm is a windows 2008 64 bit machine, with Exchange 2007 sp1 on it. It has been in...

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LSI SAS error?

Hello all. I've been running an evaluation version of ESXi [5.1] at my company, as we're trying to move torwards a more professional virtualization solution. I have a R515 however that doesn't seem to...

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Dell Esxi4.1 embedded hcl?

Hello. I am trying to find a suitable network card for an esxi host. It is running the dell embedded version. This is the first system I have worked on that is embedded rather than installed. Does...

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How to utilize 6 NIC Port on a VMware Host?

I have been given a new host that is running VMware ESXi 4.1u3 (licensed) with 6 NIC ports (not including 2 that are dedicated to iLO).  There are 2 available SAN's to connect to and utilize.  This...

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Migration of vCenter from VM to physical

Hi Apologies if I have posted in the wrong forums, feel free to move me :-) We need to move our vCentre 4.1 (hosts running ESXi 4.1) from a VM to a physical host due to issues with our backups.  I have...

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Can´t upgrade from ESXi 4.0 -> 4.1

Hi  i have a problem to update one of our ESXi 4.0 hosts build number is 4.0-171294. I decide to update the host via VMware CLI but it fails in the first step if i want to query   C:\Program Files...

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Upgrading to ESXi 5.1

Hi. Thanks in advance to all the helpful people out here.  I'm running ESXi 4.0. In order to run Windows 8 I apparently need ESXi 5.1 (I'm reading 5.0 isn't enough). I just downloaded...

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Network Load Balancing issue

I have a Cisco UCS Blade Chassis with 5 blades running ESXi 4.1. The chassis is connected to a pair of 6120 interconnects, and the interconnects are connected to our 6509e core router/switch. Im...

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Installing VMWare tools on Ubuntu 11.10 (64bits)

I have ESXi 4.0.0, 208167, server trying to install VMWare tools on Ubuntu 11.10 I'm getting the following...

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Moving a Windows 2008 vm

I have a VM with Windows 2008 in a rather small data store. I want to back it up and move it to a larger capacity server.  I am wondering if by moving it to a larger datastore, it will allow me to...

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